The People v. McLain

A constitutional question of due process is concerned in this appeal from an order entered by the circuit court of Kane County denying defendant’s petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, for a writ- of error coram nobis and for a post-conviction hearing, which petitions had been consolidated for hearing.

The defendant, Wayne F. McLain, urges that preceding and at the time of his trial for armed robbery there were facts present which had they been known to the trial court would have raised a bona fide doubt as to his sanity. He argues that if these had been presented to the trial court, under…